Holland ran out winners of the contest, which was staged inside the high security Lurigancho prison in Lima, Peru.

The event is held every four years, and is organized by prison officials to coincide with the real World Cup, as part of a rehabilitation programme.

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Four teams of six players from various prisons in Lima took part, donning the colours of the teams which made it through to the semi finals of the real contest - Brazil, Germany, Argentina and Holland - with Holland beating Germany in the final.

It might not have matched the drama of the classic film Escape to Victory, in which Allied prisoners in a German camp during World War Two play an exhibition match against a German team, prompting an escape at the end of the game.

But the National Penitentiary Institute of Peru hopes the re-enactment will encourage the inmates to take up sports.